The big political story of the night isn’t the Clinton/Shuster brouhaha or Obama’s victories. It’s on the Republican side of the race. Results are still coming in. And the particular rules of the Republican primary in Louisiana make the delegate allocation completed. But as of right now, of three Republican contests held today, it looks likely that Mike Huckabee will win all three.
We already know about Kansas, which was a blowout for Huckabee. With 62% of precincts reporting Huckabee is up by 8 point over McCain in Louisiana. And Huckabee is ahead of McCain by 3 points in Washington state with 37% of the caucuses there reporting.
There’s still time for McCain to pull ahead in Washington. But even if that happens it would not do much to change the overall picture. There’s something seriously wrong when the de facto nominee of the party loses three races in one day in three different regions of the country.
